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ARTroads is about exploring the many paths to creativity and our highly qualified instructors are going to help you navigate your pencils and brushes across paper and canvas until you reach your vision.
 Pamela Rhodes, our drawing instructor, is the founder and director of ARTroads. She believes that everyone is capable of seeing the world that surrounds us and also transposing that vision to paper and canvas.
She graduated from City University of New York, Baruch College, with a business degree and a major in advertising. She has pursued her own art education through numerous classes at San Francisco State, The Academy of Sciences, and under the tutelage of professional artists. She has worked as a technical illustrator and directed a corporate audio visual department.
 She is a skilled portrait and landscape artist, and her graphite, colored pencil and watercolor works are owned by clients throughout the US, Mexico and England.
She has taught portrait drawing for the YWCA, and her signature class "Learning to Draw so You can Paint" in San Francisco, the Yucatan and as an essential part of the Tuscany Art and Cooking Party each autumn.
Pamela is a patient and prepared instructor. She provides the tools and techniques that allow each student to develop their drawing skills. She is committed to the goal of having each of us really see all that surrounds us and drawing and painting those treasures that we see. She believes that the skill of seeing, combined with the practice of drawing, results in the excitement of expression.
Mike Rooney,
Mike Rooney is one of North Carolina's top plein air painters. His work can be found in galleries in Cape Cod, North Carolina and Key West, Florida. His paintings are in private collections internationally as well as around the U.S. His corporate collectors include Royal Bank of Canada. He has also been published in a book on plein air painters. When he's not painting for his galleries and clients, he teaches painting workshops up and down the east coast. He also makes instructional DVD's for Jerry's Artarama, a national art supply company.
Susanna LaMaina,
An american of Italian descent, living and teaching photography in Florence the last four years, Susanna brings the sensitivity of her rural,ancestors to her work. She wants her students to be able to capture the essence of Italy with an ease that modern technology has made possible
Susanna's work has been exhibited world-wide and was a feature in the Italo-Americano Museo show in San Francisco and in several solo shows in Florence.
  
 Ian Sidaway, a native of Damworth, Stafforshire, Ian structured the first level of his art education with the completion of the foundation art course at Nuneaton School of Art. After a degree course in graphic design at Richmond Tertiary College, he began his professional career as a designer in the advertising division of the notable J. Walter Thompson Ad agency.
He realized early on that a more independent artistic venture would better suit his style and ventured into freelance work in 1970 and began painting for his own purposes that same year. By the end of the decade, he began “translating” his experience, knowledge and enthusiasm of his craft working with various authors and publishers on books about art technique.
 By the 1990’s, he was producing illustrations for a diverse assortment of books and articles on gardening, food, travel, lifestyle and medicine.
Ian wrote and illustrated his first solo publication on art technique in 1994. His independent work since then has been both prolific and well-regarded. The list of eighteen publications to date include the “Watercolor Artist’s Paper Directory”, the “Colour Mixing Bible”, and the “Instant Artist” which won the 2001 Artists’ Choices Book Award.
He’s currently dividing his career efforts among his many interests; writing, illustration, painting, photography, teaching, and book and garden design. Living and working in Strawberry Hill, London, he and his wife and daughter travel extensively (ostensibly for new material).
His work is held in many private collections throughout the world.
 Sarah Craige- M.F.A., is a professional artist who resides in the sweet and tranquil countryside of North Carolina, near Chapel Hill. She is well known for her carved ceramic murals, sculptures and public and private installations. Her ceramic work is a favored addition to the atrium facilities at the University of North Carolina Cancer Treatment Center.
 As our afternoon Studio Sessions instructor, she will teach the art of combining altered images, textures and found objects into assemblages. Sarah will guide the participants in fun and creative explorations using collected images, objects and other art materials to make personal and unique art work.
Most importantly, as our 2007 Artist~in~Residence, Sarah will utilize the time and the Tuscan light to further develop her artistic insight and to hone her considerable talents.
 Carroll Lassiter - Is our Featured Artist of 2009 and our ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE in Tuscany, Italy where she'll spend her time absorbing the beautiful and unique Tuscan light and producing paintings. Carol graduated from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill with a Batchelor of Fine Art in 1972. She is currently a docent at the Ackland Museum in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and an active member of the Orange County Artist Guild.
  
Anne Marie Peterson, a third generation native San Franciscan, brings 30-years of oil painting experience to the studio and 12-years of beginner instruction. Her positive attitude of "there are no mistakes" helps beginners learn clever and helpful ways to reverse their steps in this rather forgiving medium.
While Anne Marie experimented with a wide variety of artistic media growing up, it was oil painting that captured her heart and soul at the age of eleven. During her early career, she painted scenes from nature always striving to glorify beauty. After fifteen years of painting landscapes, she attended the College of Marin, under the direction of local artist Chester Arnold, to determine her level of expertise and refine her skills.
Rededicating herself to her craft, she turned to new subject matter and renewed her commitment to capturing and communicating life’s details as realistically as possible, thereby producing a new body of work that has won admiration from many art aficionados and collectors.
 Anne Marie was never formally trained in art history or painting and in no way did this diminish the popularity of her paintings, in fact, it developed a style particular to her, not influenced by any one artist. Her style is distinguished by smooth transitions of light and color on canvas. Her desire to increase her success in painting in a classically realistic manner drives her to create more pleasing paintings that bring beauty into the world. Anne Marie’s original works hang in homes and offices around the world.
In a world where modern art is at the forefront, her work has been welcomed with joy by traditionalists who long for a revolution in the art world. As Anne Marie works towards a highly recognized career, she hopes to preserve the fundamental techniques of the masters, which have been threatened by the last century of art, by teaching beginners the materials and techniques of oil painting.
Anne Marie travels extensively around the world gathering inspiration and new subject matter for her paintings. Using a digital camera, she captures the world around her until she can return to her studio to patiently paint. Her travels have taken her to dozens of states within the USA, Canada, Mexico and India, the West Indies, Singapore, Thailand, Spain, Ireland and the U.K.
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